Workshop | Tutorials

Workshop Call For Papers

Library and Information Science Education in Asia (LISEA)
Post ICADL Workshop
December 14, 2002
2:00 to 5:30 PM

Session One
Roles and Opportunities for E-Learning in the LIS Curriculum

• current and proposed e-learning initiatives
• traditional and non-traditional courses
• synchronous and asynchronous delivery
• evaluation techniques for e-learning initiatives

Session Two
Standards for Accreditation: Thinking About LIS Program Accreditation in Asia

• major issues to be considered in undertaking accreditation
• how these might apply to Asian LIS programs
• evaluation and timelines for possible outcomes

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Tutorials

ICADL 2002 will host a series of tutorials as part of the Conference programme. These tutorials will be conducted by prominent researchers and practitioners, and cover important areas of digital libraries research and development.

Participants will pay one tutorial fee to attend all tutorials in the conference. Please check this page for the latest updates on tutorial information. Tutorials will include the following:

Wednesday 11 December, 9:00am-12:15pm
The following 2 tutorials will run concurrently. Registrants can attend either.

• 1a. Evaluating Digital Libraries for Usability (Christine Borgman, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, USA)
• 1b. Knowledge Management Systems: A Text Mining Perspective (Hsinchun Chen, Univ. of Arizona, USA)

Wednesday 11 December, 1:30pm-5:00pm
The following 2 tutorials will run concurrently. Registrants can attend either.

• 2a. Digital Libraries: Theory and Practice (Edward Fox, Virginia Tech, USA)
• 2b. Dublin Core Metadata (Stuart Weibel, OCLC, USA)

Usability is a fuzzy concept, as usability depends so much on context. A digital library that is usable by one set of users for a given set of uses may not be very usable by a different set of users with different uses. This tutorial will focus on usability in context, specifically the relationships between users, uses, and usability.

Much of the tutorial will be devoted to research methods for conducting formative, iterative, and summative evaluation of digital libraries. Because research methods are difficult to explain in the abstract, we will illustrate them with examples drawn from the Alexandria Digital Earth Prototype (ADEPT) Project. ADEPT is a 5-year project (1999-2004) to design geo-spatial digital libraries for use in undergraduate education. We are conducting a series of evaluation studies that incorporate quantitative and qualitative methods drawn from information studies, education, and psychology. The lessons learned from ADEPT apply to a wide variety of digital library applications.

About the instructor
Professor Christine L. Borgman, Professor, holds the Presidential Chair in Information Studies at UCLA and is Visiting Professor in the Department of Information Science at Loughborough University, England (1996-2002). Her teaching and research interests include digital libraries, human-computer interaction, electronic publishing, information seeking behaviour, and scholarly communication and bibliometrics, as well as information technology policy in Central and Eastern Europe. She is the author, most recently, of “From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure: Access to Information in a Networked World (MIT Press, 2000)”, which received the Best Information Science Book of the Year Award, 2000, from the American Society for Information Science & Technology. Her current research addresses the use of geo-spatial and geo-referenced digital libraries in undergraduate education. She has lectured or conducted research in more than 20 countries. She holds a B.A. in Mathematics from Michigan State University, an M.L.S. from the University of Pittsburgh, and a Ph.D. in Communication from Stanford University.

This tutorial aims to present a balanced and integrated view of what a Knowledge Management System (KMS) is. We first define Knowledge Management (KM) from various consulting and IT perspectives and then pay particular attention to new and emerging technologies that help promote this new field. In particular, we present a review of some key KMS sub-fields: search engines, data mining, and text mining. We hope to help readers better understand the emerging technologies behind knowledge management, i.e., Knowledge Management Systems. A high-level, although systematic, discussion of text mining is presented. Unlike search engines and data mining that have a longer history and are better understood, text mining is an emerging technical area that is relatively unknown to IT professionals. We therefore present several case studies and conclude with lessons learned and future research and development directions. This tutorial is intended to provide a gentle introduction to researchers and IT professionals who are new to KMS. We hope to provide a non-technical and practical review of this fascinating field and the potential and pitfalls of this type of emerging technology.

About the instructor
Dr. Hsinchun Chen is McClelland Endowed Professor of MIS at The University of Arizona and Andersen Consulting Professor of the Year (1999). He received the Ph.D. degree in Information Systems from New York University in 1989. He is author of more than 100 articles covering medical informatics, digital library, intelligent retrieval, search algorithms, knowledge management, and Web computing in leading information technology publications. He serves on the editorial boards of Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, ACM Transactions on Information Systems, and Decision Support Systems. Dr. Chen founded The University of Arizona Artificial Intelligence Lab in 1990. Since 1990, Dr. Chen has received more than $12M in research funding from various government agencies and major corporations. Dr. Chen is the Founding Director of The University of Arizona Mark and Susan Hoffman E-Commerce Lab, which features state-of-the-art e-commerce hardware and software in a cutting-edge research and education environment. Dr. Chen's work has been recognized by major US corporations and been awarded numerous industry awards for his contribution to IT education and research. In 1995 and 1996, he received the AT&T Foundation Award in Science and Engineering. In 1998 he received the SAP Award in Research/Applications and became the Karl Eller Center Honored Entrepreneurial Fellow. Dr. Chen has been heavily involved in fostering digital library and knowledge management research and education in the US and internationally.

This tutorial will start with an overview of definitions, foundations, scenarios and perspectives. It will cover a variety of issues, including:

• search, retrieval and resource discovery
• multimedia/hypermedia
• metadata (e.g., Dublin Core)
• electronic publishing; SGML and XML
• document models and representations
• database approaches
• 2D and 3D interfaces and visualizations
• architectures and interoperability (e.g., OAI); metrics
• educational (e.g., CSTC, NSDL, NDLTD) and social concerns

Case studies of projects, initiatives, and systems will illustrate key concepts, including:

• Computer Science Teaching Center (http://www.cstc.org/)
• National STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics)education Digital Library (NSF NSDL, http://www.nsdl.nsf.gov/)
• Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (http://www.ndltd.org/)
• Open Archives Initiative (http://www.openarchives.org/, http://www.dlib.vt.edu/projects/OAI/)
• Systems and approaches to building digital libraries (MARIAN/5SLgen, ODL)

Participants will leave with basic knowledge of:

• Using metadata elements (objects) to catalog information
• Requirements for publishing electronically, including so works can be archived easily
• The key issues that arise for digital library system design and performance
• Commercial and legal factors in using and creating digital libraries
• Digital library technology and its social implications

About the instructor
Dr. Edward A. Fox holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Computer Science from Cornell University, and a B.S. from M.I.T. Since 1983 he has been at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (VPI&SU, also called Virginia Tech), where he serves as Professor of Computer Science. He directs the Digital Library Research Laboratory, the Internet Technology Innovation Center at Virginia Tech, and varied projects (e.g., www.ndltd.org, www.citidel.org). He is chair of the NSDL (www.nsdl.org) Policy Committee. He is co-editor-in-chief of the ACM Journal of Educational Resources in Computing (JERIC) and serves on the editorial boards of a number of journals. He has been involved in a number of digital library efforts including TULIP, NCSTRL, NSDL, Open Archives Initiative. He has authored or co-authored many publications in the areas of digital libraries, information storage and retrieval, hypertext/hypermedia/multimedia, computational linguistics, CD-ROM and optical disc technology, electronic publishing, and expert systems.

Dublin Core metadata is the leading Internet metadata standard for information resource discovery using the Internet. This tutorial will describe the current status of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, including:

• Basic concepts and principles of metadata and its use to improve discovery and management of information resources
• Introduction to the Dublin Core and its application
• Syntax Alternatives for encoding of Dublin Core, including HTML, XML, and RDF-XML
• Models for metadata deployment: centralization, harvesting, and metadata-push
• Metadata ecology: Relation of Dublin Core metadata to other varieties of metadata
• Open Issues in the field of metadata deployment

About the instructor
Dr Stuart Weibel is the Director of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, and has led the activity since its inception in 1995. Dr. Weibel has been in the OCLC Office of Research since 1985, during which time he has directed research in the areas of optical character recognition, document structure analysis, automated cataloging, and the creation of large scale digital libraries. He has been involved in international Internet standards development since 1990 and was a founding member of the International World WIde Web Conference Committee.

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